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LCC Team Monitors Tanking Test

by: NASA

Publication date: 2010-12-20

Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- STS-133, Where -- Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Where -- Florida

Rights: Public Domain

Team members stationed at consoles in the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida monitor space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank as it is loaded with more than 535,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants. From back, are STS-133 Assistant NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding, STS-133 NASA Test Director Steve Payne, Launch Orbiter Test Conductor John Kracsun and Assistant Launch Orbiter Test Conductor Mark Taffet. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston Dec. 17, 2010